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Thursday, 12 May 2016

A fellow genealogy blogger, Pauline Cass at Family History Across the Seasasked us to share our movie memories by answering a list of questions. Sounds like fun and I am up for the challenge - and believe me the first few questions are a challenge to my memory!
Here are my answers...

What’s the earliest movie you can remember: We only watched on TV until I was a teen. All Disney movies.

Where did you go to the movies (place or type of venue): The Film Box

Did you buy movie programs: No, we didn't have them.

Did you take in food and drink (and what did you like): We snuck in some candy

Movies of your teenage years: Wait Until Dark, any Elvis, The Birds, The Great Escape, The Miracle Worker, To Sir With Love

Do you remember how old you were when you went unsupervised: About 15, my Dad dropped us off and picked us up.

Mischief you got up to in the movies: No mischief, I was Miss goody two shoes

Did you watch movies at home: Yes on TV - my grandparents liked Lon Chaney and James Cagney and I would watch with them. Later I rented many movies with my kids.

What was your favourite movie to watch at home: Sleepless in Seattle, any Bette Davis, Davy Crockett

Do you prefer to watch movies at home or at the cinema: At home - cinema is too loud.

Does your family have a special movie memory: Oliver! We still break out in song from the movie when we get together

Movies you fell in love to/with: um, none that I recall

Favourite romantic movie theme music: Everything I do (Robin Hood)

Favourite musical movie: (all of them) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Helen Morgan Story (love all the songs in this movie!!!)

Which movies made you want to dance/sing: 42nd Street, Momma Mia (who can sit still to the music of Abba?), Saturday Night Fever, Dirty Dancing

Do you watch re-runs or DVDs of old movies: Yes- I love the old movies I have tons at home onVHS - will never get rid of my VCR

Do your children/family enjoy the same movies: My grandkids like to watch my Shirley Temple movies when they come to my house

What’s your favourite movie genre now: action/mystery or drama - We watched the Millenium Trilogy of Movies in Swedish with English subtiles - it was awesome!

Did you read the book before or after the movie: Definitely before!

Which did you enjoy more, the book or the movie: They both have their attributes.

A movie that captures family history for you: (really a TV mini series..) Pillars of the Earth - takes place in Devon where my ancestors were from, and I have 2 ancestors that were involved in building a church (not exactly a Cathedral, but...

If you could only play 5 movies for the rest of your life, what would they be: A Stolen Life, The Dirty Dozen, Fiddler on the Roof, Gone With the Wind, The Shawshank Redemption (sorry I have to sneak in another - Shogun!)

Monday, 9 May 2016

We are asked to write our reflections on doing the A to Z Challenge in April.

It was my first year doing this challenge that started in 2010. There were over 2000 participants and a wide variety of subjects. I came late to the party, only hearing about it a few days before the start, so I missed the reveal and far-head planning some more experienced tended to do. Without a dedicated category for Genealogy I tried to find as many obvious bloggers of genealogy and family history as I could and made a list for me and other genealogists to follow. I missed quite a few, and found some half way through the month.Since I usually post only once a week, maybe twice, I found the pace of posting every day a little hectic. But I soon found myself hating Sundays when there was no posting or commenting! There were a few of us that kept up together the whole month, reading and commenting on each other's posts and I am so pleased to add these wonderful people to my reading list. We Survived!!I did tweet my posts, but wish I had more time to follow more on twitter and participate in #AtoZChat. I did find a few non-genealogy AtoZ-ers via twitter that were very interesting and I also added to my feed.I found some bloggers' posts were too long for the amount of posts I wanted to read, which was a shame because they were interesting and at any other time would have loved to read them. I tried to keep my posts medium-short with images and I think they were well received. (Although now I am getting long-winded hahaha). I enjoyed the challenge of coming up with subjects for each letter and surprised myself that I was able to write unusual posts for Q and Z!!Will I participate again? Heck yes!! I can see now that the trick is to have your theme figured out before hand and some if not all posts ready to roll ahead of time, with perhaps a little tweeking to do. That would leave time to read and comment on more blogs and enjoy the month stress-free. Thank you all for giving me a wonderful month of socializing and learning and a great experience.